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| From | Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.freeware, comp.sys.hp.hardware, comp.text.pdf |
| Subject | Re: Scanned PDF is always crooked (need to rotate PDF a degree or three) |
| Date | 2013-10-10 21:25 +0100 |
| Organization | Usenet Labs Bozon Detector Facility |
| Message-ID | <bbogqkF2bh9U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <l321uf$fn7$1@news.mixmin.net> |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
On 10/08/2013 11:45 PM, Fran Jones wrote: > My HP Laserjet 3200m printer/scanner often scans pages off kilter. > It's noticeable, but slight (maybe a couple of degrees). > > If it were a JPEG, I could use The Gimp freeware to straighten > but it's a PDF. If I must, I could scan to JPEG and then use > cutePDF freeware or Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Standard payware to then > print the straightened JPG to PDF - but that seems convoluted. > > Is there freeware that will rotate a PDF page by just a degree > or three (just like The Gimp rotates an image)? The PDF is just an enclosure. The image is inside it. What you need to do is extract the image, rotate it, and recreate the PDF, eg $ pdfimages -j scanfile.pdf scan $ convert scan-001.jpg -rotate 2 scanfile.pdf pdfimages is part of the Poppler Utilities; the -j forces JPG output; the third argument is a base-name for the extracted image (images lose their names when you embed them in a PDF, so they need naming when they are extracted). The first (or only) file will use this base-name plus a hyphen and a serial number starting at 1, plus the extension. convert is the ImageMagick conversion program. ///Peter
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Scanned PDF is always crooked (need to rotate PDF a degree or three) Fran Jones <FranJones@is.invalid> - 2013-10-08 22:45 +0000
Re: Scanned PDF is always crooked (need to rotate PDF a degree or three) Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2013-10-08 19:45 -0500
Re: Scanned PDF is always crooked (need to rotate PDF a degree or three) sandy <sandy@is.invalid> - 2013-10-09 18:58 +0000
Re: Scanned PDF is always crooked (need to rotate PDF a degree or three) Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2013-10-11 13:07 +0000
Re: Scanned PDF is always crooked (need to rotate PDF a degree or three) Axel Berger <Axel.Berger@Gmx.De> - 2013-10-11 22:00 +0200
Re: Scanned PDF is always crooked (need to rotate PDF a degree or three) Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2013-10-14 13:20 +0000
Re: Scanned PDF is always crooked (need to rotate PDF a degree orthree) Axel Berger <Axel.Berger@Gmx.De> - 2013-10-14 18:45 +0200
Re: Scanned PDF is always crooked (need to rotate PDF a degree or three) Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> - 2013-10-10 21:25 +0100
Re: Scanned PDF is always crooked (need to rotate PDF a degree or three) occam <occam@127.0.0.1> - 2013-10-11 08:05 +0200
Re: Scanned PDF is always crooked (need to rotate PDF a degree or three) yufan <steven1831@yahoo.com> - 2013-10-11 12:02 +0800
Re: Scanned PDF is always crooked (need to rotate PDF a degree or three) yufan <steven1831@yahoo.com> - 2013-10-11 11:56 +0800
Re: Scanned PDF is always crooked (need to rotate PDF a degree or three) tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2014-02-15 15:30 -0500
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